Whisky package



March 10:.1936- s. c. MILLER 2,33,34

WHISKY PACKAGE Filed May 2. 1934 Patented Mar. 10, 1936 t barren stares PATENT QEFEQE WHISKY PACKAGE Application May 2, 1934, Serial No. 723,560

2 Claims.

The present invention relates to improvements in whisky packages, and has for an object to provide a sealed container in which bottles of whisky may be packaged, to the end that tampering with the contents may be avoided, While at the same time, inspection is allowed the revenue or other stamps usually afiixed over the closure and down the sides of the neck of the bottle.

It is important to preserve the purity and integrity of the liquor that the bottle may be sealed in a container of such character that only its destruction will give access to the bottle. The destruction of the container will immediately show to the purchaser an act of tampering which will cause him to reject the goods.

Where the side wall of the bottle is opaque and the top and bottom of metal mounted in sealed relation to the tube or side wall, the bottle is obscured, and it is the purpose of the invention to provide the metallic or other top with an arrangement of openings or holes, which shall in nowise diminish the sealed character of the container, but will secure visibility of all parts of the revenue stamp, or other strip stamp, which extends as a protection about the closure and neck of the bottle.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention will be more fully described hereinafter, and will be more particularly pointed out in the claims appended hereto.

In the drawing, wherein like symbols refer to like or corresponding parts throughout the several views,

Figure 1 is a perspective view showing an improved sealed container for bottles constructed in accordance with the present invention.

Figure 2 is a top plan View of the same, and

Figure 3 is a fragmentary section taken on the line 3--3 in Figure l.

Referring more particularly to the drawing, 5 designates a bottle for containing whisky, brandy, gin, wine, or other liquor, the contents of which bootleggers and other unauthorized persons are desirous of removing and duplicating with inferior liquors. The contents of the bottle is protected to some extent by revenue or other strip stamp, which extends across the closure of the bottle and is aflixed by adhesive to the side walls of the neck of the bottle. How ever, such stamps are easily duplicated and the closures of bottles have been largely duplicated in recent years, so that at the present time, it is a comparatively simple matter to abstract the contents of the bottle 5 and replace same with an inferior grade of liquor to the great damage and injury both to the purchaser and original distiller. For this purpose, the bottle is encased in a sealed container having a cylindrical or other form of tubular wall 1 made of fiber, cardboard, or other appropriate material, which may be embellished as to its exterior with an attractive form of label extending entirely about the side wall I and containing the trade-mark, name of the manufacturer and such other information as it is desired to inform the public concerning the product.

The package is enclosed by a bottom 8 and a top head 9, usually of tin, or some other appropriate material, which will readily lend itself to a spinning or other operation designed to effect a tight and sealed fit upon the ends of the carton body such that the ends may not be removed, the package only being opened by cutting the side wall I all around, or nearly so, sufficient topry the top 9 to one side to allow withdrawal of the bottle 5. Where the side wall I is opaque and the heads 8 and. 9 of metal, no inspection of the bottle or revenue stamp it is permitted. Inasmuch as it is desirable to have the information on the strip stamp 6 open to inspection at all times, either by Government agents or the purchasers, I provide in the top 5 a series of holes or openings of such disposition, size and relative arrangement as to show therethrough all parts of the strip stamp 6 with capability of reading therefrom the data contained thereon.

Such arrangement consists of a central hole or opening l0, centrally disposed with respect to the top 9, but being of a diameter somewhat smaller than the diameter of the neck of the bottle, so as to avoid the neck being drawn upwardly through such opening [0, which would of course lay the revenue stamp and the closure of the bottle open for removal and refilling of the contents.

Distributed around the central opening H] are a series of openings H, l2, l3 and I4. These openings may be of the same or a diiferent diameter as compared with the diameter of the central opening Ill, but they are preferably located equi-distantly from the opening it] and at equal distances from one another, so that no matter how the bottle may be placed in the container or what the angular position of the strip stamp portions may be, the text on such portions of the stamp may be visible and readable through two diametrically opposed openings, such for instance as the openings i2 and i l in Figure 1. If the bottle chance to be turned at'45, then such portions of the strip stamp would still be visible through the openings II and i3. In any intermediate angular position of the bottle, the matter on the stamps will be visible through all four openings, and the central opening l0 makes it possible to apply, with the finger or some instrument, a slight frictional pressure on the top of the bottle, such that when the container is turned sidewise, there may be a relative turning of the container with respect to the bottle for the purpose of bringing the end parts of the strip stamp to a more desirable position relative to any diametric pair of the openings.

In this way, all of the desirable characteristics of a sealed container of opaque nature are preserved with the additional benefits of complete inspection of the strip stamp at all times.

It is obvious that various changes and modifi cations may be made in the details of construction and design of the above specifically described embodiment of this invention without departing from the spirit thereof, such changes and modifications being restricted only by the scope of the following claims.

What is claimed is:-

1. A sealed container for a bottle having a closure and a strip stamp passing over the top and down the sides thereof, comprising a tubular side wall, and end heads for interlocking in sealed relation with the ends of the tubular side wall,

said top head having a central opening disposed above the central part of the strip stamp, such opening being of smaller diameter than the diameter of the cork of the bottle, said top head also having a series of side openings arranged in diametrically opposite pairs and distributed around the central opening at approximately equal distances from one another and from the central opening, such side openings being of sufficient diameter to permit an inspection and reading of the entire length of the end portions of the strip stamp which lie against opposite sides of the bottle neck.

2. A sealed container for a bottle having a closure and a strip stamp passing over the top and down the sides thereof, comprising an enclosing side wall, and end heads for interlocking in sealed relation with the ends of side wall, said top head having an opening disposed above the central part of the strip stamp, such opening being of less Width than the cork of the bottle, said top head also having a series of side openings arranged in diametrically opposite pairs and distributed at approximately equal distances from one another and from the central opening, such side openings being of sufficient size to permit an inspection and reading of the entire length of the end portions of the strip stamp which lie against opposite sides of the bottle neck.

SAMUEL C. MILLER. 

